Hi,
the LazyMouse feature of ZBrush is very nice, and many people have been asking for a similar feature in other applications.
I’ve been working on a little program that does a similar thing for almost any application. It doesn’t work exactly the same way, but you might find it useful.
It’s called LazyNezumi and you can check it out here:
http://people.happycoders.org/kamih/wordpress/?page_id=46
Let me know what you think!
cheers,
kamih
My prayers have been answered…
hi Kamih…
First thanks for that great application,
but i’ve trying to make it work with opencanvas with no avail any suggestion??
and i hope you will conntinue to extend its functionality.
peace.
I didn’t know about OpenCanvas. I’ll check it out and see if I can add support for it. I’ll let you know.
cheers,
kamih
Thank You!!!
Works fine on Vista 64 with PS CS4. It will not function with 64 bit PS but works just fine with the 32bit installation on a 64 bit machine.
Using XP SR2 compatibility mode.
I do not see any guide line or circle however when checked. Don’t really need that though.
This will be very useful and thank you again.
Hi,
a new version of LazyNezumi is ready!
This fixes many problems with window attachments, and adds support to many apps (including OpenCanvas).
You can get it here:
http://people.happycoders.org/kamih/wordpress/?page_id=46
cheers,
kamih
wow this is so awesome, i’ve been looking for something like this for ages, even tried out PaintoolSai, and am amazed photoshop never had it as a standard.
but i’m having some problems with it.
xp64bit
wacom intuos 3
photoshop cs
when trying in photoshop with just my mouse, the lazynezumi cursors will come up and seem to work correctly but no paint will be put through. if i switch over to my tablet, then the lazynezumi cursors lock on an axis and either pop around or echo over and over, still no paint put down either.
also if i try it in zbrush with mouse its pretty smooth, with tablet there is a lag and occasional size inconsistency. i’m using it in zbrush’s paintstop. also it would not allow me to switch the brushes in paintstop without disabling and reenabling it.
Spaceboy, send me a DbgView log (see instructions in README.txt) and I’ll see what I can do.
I won’t be able to look at ZBrush though cause my demo expired, but it should work correctly in photoshop (which version are you using btw?)
cheers,
kamih
I really can’t thank you the way you deserve for your generosity and kindness.
lazynezumi work now with Opencanvas the way it should.
I’ve here little question can I change the shortcut for Enabled check box to a single button lets say “Ctrl” only to make it easier to go back and forth?
I hope that i’m not bother you …Thanks again kamih you really awsome.
peace.
Any chance of getting this to work with Bodypaint3d as well ? It’s great !
kamih thanks again.
as i posted i’m using Photoshop CS, or version 8
here is the log file.
first i used the mouse then switched over to the tablet.
it sounds great, too bad i cant get it to work with 64bit vista. Tried all sorts of things, including the proposed compatibility setting. Anyway thank you!
It is working for me on the 32 bit installation of CS4 on a Vista 64 bit machine. It is only working with the tablet and not the mouse I discovered.
The guide line thingy even started working.
Perhaps the driver for the Intuous Tablet allows it to work? I don’t know but it won’t work if I use a Logitech mouse. I have not tried another mouse and driver though.
Works with Painter 11 in 64bit Vista. I am used to switching back and forth between Painter and PS4 so its not to bad.
i see, i have a logitech. Thank you for the tips. The wacom doesnt work here either, but its not an intuos. Its an old model of the retail line (sapphire). And i havent got painter… ouch out of luck!
Atheist: I’ll add an option to configure the hotkey soon.
For all of you who are having problems with XP64, I have access to a XP64 machine so I’m going to do some testing to see if I can get things a little more stable.
For Vista users, I’ll try to see if I can find a Vista version I can install on a VMWare to do some testing, but it might take a little while (and even then, I might not figure out how to do what I’m doing in Vista, so don’t hold your breath).
To everyone else, I’m glad you like it! Don’t forget to show me the cool stuff you do with it :).
cheers,
kamih
Best regrads for you kamih …
I hope that i’m not bothering you or somthing but the HotKey will be to enble or disable LazyNezumi only or one can also change radius and soomthing slides with HotKeys? 
another thing i’ve a suggestion here but i don’t know if it can be made or not because I’m not a programmer and that to add a slide that determine when LazyNesumi enabled or not based on the speed of the mouse movement in that case the drawing will be more dynamic and drawing even with mouse will be more fun.
in the end i wish to you all good.
peace
just wanted to say that i tried it on normal xp32bit running through microsofts virtual machine with PSCS4 demo and at least with the mouse it worked fine, i don’t have my tablet working with the VM so i couldn’t try. So its looking like my issue might just be that my XP is 64bit.
Atheist: yeah I could do something like that (although it wouldn’t disable again until you release the mouse/pen, otherwise you would get a nonlinear jump).
I might experiment with ideas like this when I have some time. First though I want to make sure what I have now runs runs on as many apps as I can.
Spaceboy: (now I’m humming the Smashing Pumpkins song :). You have two problems. One of them is PS CS1. I tested it and it doesn’t work on my system either, so I’ll try to figure out what’s wrong. The second is WinXP64, some functions are different and so my hooks aren’t working. But I can probably fix that too.
I’ll let you know when an update is ready.
cheers,
kamih
Hi guys,
a new version (8.29) is ready!
You can get it here as usual:
http://people.happycoders.org/kamih/wordpress/?page_id=46
In this version I changed the function hooking code so that it’ll perform a lot better and work with more versions of Windows (you’ll need XPSP2 at least).
I didn’t get a chance to test with Vista so let me know if this is any better (or worst) than the previous version.
I added an entry in the config.ini for the enable hotkey.
I added support for Photoshop CS, BodyPaint 3D and TVP Animation 9 Pro.
Check it out and let me know how it goes!
cheers,
kamih